Roger V. Gonzalez, Ph.D., P.E., is the Inaugural Chairman and Professor of the Dept of Engineering Education and Leadership. He also serves as the Director of the Engineering Leadership program for the College of Engineering. Dr. Gonzalez earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1986 from UTEP. He earned his M.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow and the premier Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Northwestern Medical School. Professor Gonzalez has been recognized for scholarly work, education innovation, and socio-entrepreneurial humanitarian efforts. He is known and respected for actively incorporating students into all three of these areas.

• Mike Loya Endowed Chair - UTEP College of Engineering (02/01/2024-02/28/2024)
• Fellow, ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (04/01/2016)
• Fellow, AIMBE - American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers (04/01/2015)

• Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University Medical School (1996)
• Ph D in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (1994)
• MS in Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (1990)
• BS in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso (1986)

• Optimization of a Cost-Constrained, Hydraulic Knee Prosthesis Using a Kinematic Analysis Model Biomechanics (2023), Roger Gonzalez.
• Local composition control using an active-mixing hotend in fused filament fabrication Additive Manufacturing Letters 7 (2023), Joshua T. Green, Ian A. Rybak, Jonathan J. Slager, Mauricio Lopez, Zachary Chanoi, Calvin Stewart, Roger Gonzalez.
• Hotend for additive manufacturing with an actuated rod in a heated chamber (2022), Joshua T. Green, Roger Gonzalez.
• Design and Initial Evaluation of a Low-Cost Microprocessor-Controlled Above-Knee Prosthesis: A Case Report of 2 Patients Prosthesis (2022), Roger Gonzalez.
• The Efficacy of Simultaneously Training 2 Motion Targets During a Squat Using Auditory Feedback. Journal of applied biomechanics 37 1 (2021), R F. Hale, Sandor Dorgo, Roger Gonzalez, Jerome G. Hausselle.
• Leadership in Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2021), Peter Golding, Scott A. Starks, Roger Gonzalez, Meagan Kendall, David G. Novick, Cole H. Joslyn.
• DOES ANYTHING GO? MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 141 11 (2019), Roger Gonzalez.
• Rigid-body modeling of knee cartilage and meniscus using experimental pressure-strain curves Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 22 6 (2019), Steve L. Wilson, Jerome G. Hausselle, TM Guess, RV Gonzalez.

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